London Road Can Be Re-Named After Guru Nanak Road.
London Road named after General Engaged with the recovery of Kanpur may before long be rechristened as Guru Nanak Street. The move has come in the wake of People of color Matter fights, following which London city hall leader Sadiq Khan propelled a commission to survey the capital’s commemorations
In an endeavor by England to decolonize road names and sculptures following the outrage started by George Floyd, a street in Southall, where the biggest gurudwara in western Europe sits, could be renamed, GuruNanak Street.
As per a report in the media, Gurdwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha is arranged on Havelock Street in Southall, a street named after English general Sir Henry Havelock, who was associated with the recovery of Cawnpore (presently Kanpur) in UP during the Main War of Freedom in 1857.
The report expressed that Ealing Committee has started to counsel its occupants on a proposed name change from Havelock Street to Guru Nanak Street, similarly, Gurdwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha gets ready to open for a private petition on June 15. It will be the first run through the gurdwara opens for a singular petition since the beginning of the lockdown.
The move has come in the wake of People of color Matter fights, following which London city mayor Sadiq Khan propelled a commission to survey the capital’s remembrances as England begins to decolonize road names and sculptures. Work chambers are currently evaluating sculptures and celebrations in their regions.
“We have to ensure our open domain, our sculptures, street names, and structures, mirror our decent variety and not mirror a solidified past where expansionism, bigotry, and the slave exchange were available and observed,” Ealing Gathering pioneer Julian Ringer was cited as saying.
The report additionally expressed that two years prior an extreme outfit, the National Sikh Youth Alliance, propelled a battle for an alternate name for the street — “Sant Jarnail Singh Marg” — in memory of killed extremist Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale. The outfit’s appeal routed to Ealing Chamber, which is still live, has accumulated just shy of 2,000 marks.
